I ran across Claus’s link to the makeuseof.com article that shows how to run Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection program as a portable application from a USB drive.
This lead me to think about how this could be of value in my environment. I frequently hop from server to server using Microsoft’s Terminal Services client, mstsc.exe, which is built into Windows XP, Windows 2003 and newer operating systems.
My Windows 2000 servers can be accessed though RDP, but since do not have the updated client on them, I had not been able to run mstsc from the Windows 2000 server itself.
The makeuseof.com article lists four files that need to be copied in order to run Remote Desktop from a USB drive: mstsc.exe and mstscax.dll, plus mstsc.exe.mui and mstscax.dll.mui.
I copied the first two files from my Windows XP SP2 machine up to my Windows 2000 server. The second two .mui files did not exist on my Windows XP machine, probably due to the version of the OS I am running.
February 14, 2009 at 4:09 am
Why didn’t you just install the RDP Client on Windows 2000?
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=80111f21-d48d-426e-96c2-08aa2bd23a49&displaylang=en
August 6, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Hi Julie – thanks for blogging this – it’s just helped me to administer another computer from a Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 machine
Mark
September 10, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Julie, one of my colleagues found that he also needed msacm32.dll and msacm32.dll.mui – I think that might be when using a later release of the RDP client (possibly the one from Windows Server 2008 R2 as my testing with the 4 files you referenced used copies from Windows Server 2008)